Training Qualifications & Experience

Training Qualifications and Experience

• B.Sc (Hons) degree in Behavioural Science from Aston University in Birmingham
• Post Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy from Spectrum

I maintain my association with Spectrum where I continue to attend a wide variety of courses, seminars and workshops. The main subject areas are listed below for your information. More detailed information can be found in the Spectrum brochure or on their web site.

Professional training

• How to become a Spectrum trained psychotherapist
• One year course in Psychotherapy
• One year continuation course
• Post graduate course in Psychotherapy
• Post graduate continued education programme.

Personal and professional development

• Action techniques in therapy
• Working with anger
• Developing clinical intervention skills
• Gestalt therapy - theory and practice
• Men for men (Men's group)
• Practical application of interpersonal relationship skills
• Practice management for psychotherapists and counsellors
• Process oriented coaching programme
• Professional dream workshops (based on formative psychology)
• Professional seminar series (which looks at the dynamics of a therapeutic relationship)
• Sexuality (basic, intermediate and advanced) and childhood sexual abuse (occurrence and prevention)
• The way we work (an opportunity to talk about the work of, and work with, other Spectrum therapists)
• Transforming relationships
• Supervision
• Working with couples
• Working with groups

Residential Programme

• Marathons (24 to 96 hours in length on specific topics for personal development)

Workshops and seminars

• Dreams
• Re-parenting
• Family work (fathers and sons; fathers and daughters)
• Self esteem
• Relationships

Other training

• Counselling skills programme (Westminster Pastoral Foundation)
• Effective techniques for dealing with somatisation (Margaret Landale)
• Psychotherapeutic techniques for affect regulation (CONFER)

I am also trained and have worked as a:-

• telephone counsellor
• befriender and domiciliary support worker for families who have children with development and learning difficulties
• classroom support assistant in a special needs school for children on the autistic spectrum

Supervision

• Spectrum provides me with clinical supervision for my client work

Code of conduct and ethical practice

• I also subscribe and consciously adhere to Spectrum's code of ethics for my professional practice. I am committed to working without prejudice as to age, class, disability, gender, religion, sexual orientation or upbringing

Registration

• I am a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
• I am registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy through Spectrum which itself is an accredited training organisation recognised by the UKCP
• I am a qualified registered practitioner with the British Association of Psychological Type (BAPT)
• I am registered with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the British Association of Humanistic Psychotherapy